As Wales embarks on a new community mental health journey  with Welsh Government’s recently published strategy, we look at why there’s reasons to be hopeful – and the places we can already see change happening.

It’s time for real change in Wales; for us to hear the voices of activists, people with lived experience of poor mental health, and staff within the system who have seen things not working. For their tireless campaigning to be reflected and enshrined in Government intent – and for that intent to turn into tangible action. It’s starting to look like it might just happen.

9 May 2025 | Ewan Hilton, CEO, Platfform | We need to understand that community means very different things to people. It can be the place where you live, the places where you hang out online, it can be other people like you that you identify with.